Author Spotlight (Widget)
Author Spotlight widget displays the profile of the author(s) with Social links (example: Twitter, Facebook) and his/her profile picture or Gravatar on any post or page that has an Author. The widget automatically detects the current author(s) of the displayed post or page; just drag and drop the wi
Author Spotlight widget displays the profile of the author(s) with Social links (example: Twitter, Facebook) and his/her profile picture or Gravatar on any post or page that has an Author. The widget automatically detects the current author(s) of the displayed post or page; just drag and drop the widget on your sidebar and you are done.
To display a custom photograph with the Author’s Profile you may install the User Photo . In absence of this plugin the widget will fall-back to displaying the Gravatar associated with the user. If your posts have multiple authors you may use the Co-Authors Plus , the Author Spotlight will then display all the author profiles one below another for such post/page.
Note that installing the User Photo or Co-Author plugin is purely optional, this widget will work fine without them as well.
If you face any issues with the plugin or have any suggestion/feature requests please do so at the support forum .
Screenshots & previews.
- 01Download and unzip author-profile.zip . Then upload the folder containing author-profile.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- 02Alternatively, you may use the Automatic installation feature of WordPress.
- 03Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress. For details refer this Codex page .
- 04To display Author Spotlight , browse to Appearance > Widgets and drag-and-drop the ‘Author Spotlight” widget to desired sidebar. You may configure the widget according to your needs. Save your changes and you are done.
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